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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54396	The devill of Mascon, or, A true relation of the chiefe things which an unclean spirit did, and said at Mascon in Burgundy in the house of Mr. Francis Pereaud, minister of the Reformed Church in the same towne / published in French lately by himselfe ; and now made English by one that hath a particular knowledge of the truth of this story.; Antidémon de Mascon. English	Perrault, François, 1577-1657.; Du Moulin, Pierre, 1568-1658.	1658 (1658)	Wing P1584; ESTC R40060	21,898	64

Get thee from me Satan the Lord rebuke thee But as he was repeating againe very often that word Minister thinking belike thereby to grieve me much I was provoked to tell him Yes indeed I am a Minister a servant of the living God before whose Majesty thou tremblest To which he answered I say nothing to the contrary And I replied I have no need of thy testimony Yet he continued to say the same as if he would winne us to a favorable opinion of him Then he would offer to transforme himselfe into an Angell of light saying of his owne accord and very lowd the Lords Prayer the Creed the morning and evening prayers and the ten Commandements It is true that he did alwaies clip and leave out some part of it He sung also with a lowd and audible voyce part of the Psalm 81. Then said many things which might be true as some particular passages belonging to my family as among other things that my father had beene poisoned naming the man that did it and why and specifying the place and the manner of the poison That very night he said that he came from Pais de Vaux that he had past through the village of Allamogne which is in Bailliage de Gez at the dore of my elder brothers house where he had seene him with Mr Du Pan Minister of Thoiry That they were ready to goe to supper together at my brothers house That they were neighbours and deare friends That he had saluted them and asked whether they had any thing to command him to deliver to me because he was going to Mascon That they had shewed themselves very kinde to him and desired him to remember their love to me ' yea and had invited him to drinke with them Thou wicked fiend said I to the spirit had they knowne thee they would not have beene so kind to thee Some truth there was in his story for M Du Pan hath since told me and many others that they remembred very well how at that very time a man of such and such a shape riding on a very leane horse that hung downe his head had spoken with them and that such discourses past betweene them The Demon told us also of another brother of mine living in the Vale of the Lake de Joux in the Countrey of Vaux saying that one day when some of our neere kinred were come to visit him he to give them some recreation made them goe upon the lake without a boate upon floating wood tyed together And that they being farre on the Lake a stormy wind did arise which constrained them to returne in haste to the shore Not farre from which all that floating wood was overturned and they all welnigh drowned Which storme he affirmed to be of his raising The relation of that passage being very true it may be true also that he had raised that wind as we reade in the booke of Job that Satan raised a great winde that made the house fall upon the children of that holy man Another night the Demon speaking to Claude Repay a bleacher of linnen cloath one of them that used to come to me at night asked him whether he remembred not that upon such a day after he had set in order some pieces of cloath and skeanes of yarne he found them a while after removed out of their place and out of order and then said that it was his doing He asked another bleacher called Philibert Guillermin who was also in the company whether he remembred not that one day as he was stooping to turne some pieces of cloath and skeanes of yarne lying upon the grasse something pulled him behind by the skirts of his doublet and made him goe back two or three steps and that the next evening as he lay in his bleaching house his hat which he had hanged on a naile by his bed-side was flung at his face and made him start out of his sleepe That said he was of my doing Both Repay and Guillermin acknowledged that these things had happened to them but who had a hand in these accidents they knew not before That Philibert Guillermins brother a merchant of Lovan comming from Lyons lodged in his brothers house and had a mind to visit me the first night but his brother would not let him The Demon failed not to tell us of it saying I know why Mr Philibert came not to sit up here yester-night His Brother had a good minde to have bestowed a visit upon us but Philibert disswaded him because he would not that his brother should heare what noise we keepe in this house He spake also of a late quarrell betweene one James Berard a cutler of Mascon and one Samuel du Mont who had so beaten the sayd Berard that he had brought him to deaths dore which was true and told many particulars of that quarrell which were not knowne He told us how at the late fayre of St Lawrence upon which the citizens of Mascon march in armes under their severall colours one Francis Chickard had beene hurt with a musket shot in the legge which afterwards being gangrened was cut off And he named the man that had shot him and said that he had done it to be revenged of Chickard to whom he bore a malice which might very well be true He related a notable story of those that lived before in the house where we dwelt Philibert Masson and Guillauma Blane his wife commonly called la Challonoise that one day they being fallen out the wife tooke her time when her husband would goe downe into his shop and pusht him behind with such violence that he fell downe the stares starke dead And that she presently by another paire of staires went downe and called the prentices and journeymen from the shop to their drinking that they finding their master in the bottome of the staires dead might impute his death to some sudden sicknesse This secret revealed by the Devill many have believed to be a truth Another night the Demon speaking to one of our company told him such private and secret things that the man who affirmed never to have told them to any person came to believe that the Devill knew his thoughts till I had disabused him Then he began to mock God and all Religion and saying Gloria Patri he skipt over the second person and upon the third person he made a foule horrible and detestable equivocation Whereupon I being incensed with a just anger told him But rather thou wicked and abominable Spirit shouldest have said Gloria Patri creatori coeli terrae Filio ejus Jesu Christo qui destruxit opera Diaboli That is Glory be to the Father Creatour of heaven and earth and to his Sonne Jesus Christ who hath destroyed the workes of the Devill He then desired us with great earnestnesse that we should send for Mr Du Chassin the Popish Parson of St Stevens Parish to whom he would confesse himselfe and that

he should not faile to bring holy water along with him for that sayd he would send me away packing presently We wondered that the dog of the house who used to be very watchfull and would barke at the least noise yet never barked at the loud speaking and hideous noise of the Demon He said of his owne accord without asking You wonder that the dog barketh not It is because I made the sign of the Crosse upon his head Then being upon a merry pinne he fell a scoffing and jearing and among others things sayd that he was one of those that scaled the walls of Geneva and that the ladder being broken he fell from the wall into the ditch where he had beene neere to have beene eaten by the frogs whose croaking he did perfectly imitate He said that a Jesuite called Father Alexander stood at the foot of the ladder exhorting the Savoyards to goe up boldly assuring them that they should take the city and winne Paradise And that when the thirteene that were got up and taken were led to the gallowes the women of the towne sayd to the hangman Courage Tabasan thou shalt have mony to drink Speaking of Pays de Vaux he said that it was a countrey where they made goodly carbonadoe's of witches and at that he laughed very loud He delighted much in jesting with the mayd of the house calling her Bressande that is a woman of the countrey of Bressia and counterfeited her language One night as she went up to the garret to fetch coales he told her Thou art very bold to passe so neere me and making a noise as if he had clapt his hands together he told her I will put thee in my sack He seemed also to delight much in jeasting with one Michael Repay who came almost every night to us with his father calling him often Michel Mihell He told him once that he would bring him to warre with the Marquesse of St Martin who was raising a troope of horse in Bressia to go to Savoy But Michael Repay answered him smiling should I goe to warres with such a coward as thy selfe since thou professest that thou didst flie from the scalado of Geneva To which the Demon answered And do you think that I would goe and be hanged with my camrades I was not such a foole Continuing to jeast with Michael Repay he put him in mind that the Sunday before going to Church with one Noel Monginot to the village of Vrigny he was saying that the way to catch the Devill was to spread a net for him and then he told him Wilt thou now spread thy net to catch me At the same time he did so lively counterfeit the voyce of Michael Repay's mother that he said laughing to his father Father truly he speakes justilike my mother Another time he told us in a faint and moaning tone that he had a mind to make his will because he must needs goe presently to Chambery where he had a law-suite ready for the triall and that he feared to dye by the way wherefore he had the mayd to goe for a Notary naming Mr Tornus father to that Tornus of whom we spake before Of his family he said many particularities of which as also of all the passages of this Demon acted in his presence the sayd Tornus the sonne a Royall Notary as his father hath left a relation written and signed with his owne hand which I have in my keeping for confirmation of all that is here related And it was to have such an authenticall testimonie that I adrest my selfe to him when this vexation came upon me In that relation he mentioneth the severall legacies which the Demon declared that he would leave to one this to another that One of them to whom he sayd that he would give five hundred pounds answered him that he would have none of his money and wisht that it might perish with him He named another to be his heire generall who also answered that he would not accept the inheritance I free thee of it sayd the Demon for six pence and a piece of bread A while after he counterfeited that he was not the same Spirit that had spoken before but his servant onely That he came from waiting upon his Master who had charged him to keepe his place in his absence while he was in his journey to Chambery And when I rebuked him in such words as God put in my mouth he answered with much seeming lenity and respect I beseech you Sir to pardon me you are mistaken in me you take me for another I never was in this house before I pray Sir what is your name As he was thus speaking one Simeon Meissonier that used to resort often to my house upon that occasion rusht suddenly to the place whence the voyce seemed to come and having searcht it againe and againe as others had done before him and found nothing he returned to the place where we were all bringing with him severall things from the place where the voyce sounded among other things a small bottle At which the Demon fell a laughing and said to him I was told long since that thou wert a foole and I see now that thou art one indeed to believe that I am in that bottle I should be a foole my selfe to get into it for so one might take me with stopping the bottle with his finger One night when Abraham Lullier a goldsmith was comming into the house where he seldome fayled to be at that houre the Demon said Goe open the doore to Lullier who is comming and at the same time Lullier knockt at the doore As soone as he was come in the Demon told him that he desired to learne the goldsmiths trade of him and that for his prentiship he would give him fifty Crownes Then giving him faire words I love thee well said he thou art an honester man then such a man naming another goldsmith a man of Geneva who hath cosened such a Lady of Mascon who was gone to visit some of her kinred at Geneva in the sale of some rings Jewells and plate Upon which when Lullier told him I have no need of thy love I am content with the love of my God Neither will I take such a prentice as thee The Demon answered Since thou wilt not teach me the Goldsmiths trade let Master Philibert teach me to be a Bleacher Then acting againe the part of a servant he complained that he was poore and ill clad that he starved for cold and that his wages were but twelve crownes a yeare He told us that if we would have him to goe away quickly we should give him something and that any thing would please him I told him that he knockt at the wrong doore and that I would not give him the paring of my nailes He answered You have then very little charity Againe he obstinately affirmed that he was not the same that had bin in the house from the beginning